Disable favicon support in Firefox

Tim Russell writes in with this tip: “If there’s one thing I hate about your website and most other sites out there it’s the accompanying favicon’s that litter my browser tabs and bookmarks menu. Surely I’m not the only one that dislikes this so called feature, so if you want to turn off favicons this is all you have to do…” We generally like favicon’s but to each his own, continue on for the simple instructions on how to disable them.

Disable favicon support in Firefox

In the address bar, type about:config

Type “icon” in the search filter on the top

Change browser.chrome.favicons to false by double clicking on it

Change browser.chrome.site_icons to false by double clicking on it

Restart Firefox

Thanks for the tip Tim!

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I have no particular problem with favicons as far as tabs go. I even think that they are crucial to distinguish between tabs faster.

What I would like to get rid of are favicons next to the bookmarks bar. Mainly because it leaves a lot less space for bookmarks. Safari style bookmark bar is really what I’m looking for in firefox. I have however found an add-on that removes labels and just leaves the icons on the bookmarks bar. This seems as a completely useless idea to me, because I’ve found that it is too hard to locate and actually left click on a needed icon. Since the icons are so small, I tend to miss the ones I want and tap the left or the right one instead.

But I kind of get this feeling that just removing icons from Bookmark bar and leaving the rest of the favicons (tabs, general bookmarks) intact is not something that can be done as easy